In Movies We Understand That The Genocidal Child Murderers Who Blow Up Hospitals Are The Villains -- OR.., DO WE

Nobody seems to have trouble figuring out who the real villains are when it’s happening in the movies. The narrative managers and spinmeisters make it a lot harder to sort out the villains from the victims in real life.
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Remember in The Dark Knight when we all applauded the Joker for heroically blowing up a hospital?
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Or remember when we watched Star Wars and cheered for the protagonist Darth Vader as he destroyed a planet to punish the rebel scum for daring to resist him?
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How about when we watched Schindler's List anxiously hoping the Nazis would be able to thwart the diabolical scheming of the villain Oskar Schindler to prevent them from committing genocide?
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Or when we watched Avatar and cheered for the interstellar megacorporation and its army of mercenaries to displace the indigenous people of Pandora to steal their land?
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Reading by Tim Foley.
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Caitlin Johnstone
March 23, 2025
3 minutes
gaza, israel
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Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUyil3yHyaI